Stop this nonsense talk about Dundalk getting relegated. It ain’t happening. They’ll have a ****e league campaign to show at the end of the season but I just can’t see them being anywhere else other than the PD next season
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Stop this nonsense talk about Dundalk getting relegated. It ain’t happening. They’ll have a ****e league campaign to show at the end of the season but I just can’t see them being anywhere else other than the PD next season
I agree , I could see them finishing 9th with the form harps and waterford are on but by the time the playoff would come around the injury crises will be over and they would be far to strong for any first division team over 2 legs.
I asked my question narrowly as i think most fans would take it but the key is to consolidate, a bad season is just that but structural problems are different.
When we won our 4 in a row in the 80's i thought we were indestructible but the Kilcoynes sold Miltown and in the next 25 years we won 1 league. But someone looking at the record books would say it was a great time.
Shels imploded and never really recovered to date and are about to lose Tolka.
All Dundalk have to do is imo leave Vinny there give him a budget of 50% or less of his current budget (same as Rovers according to Bill) and sign decent LOI pros and they will be competitive next year.
It doesn't have to end in tears
Huge 6 pointer tonight in Finn Park tonight.
Chance for Harps to go 2 clear of Bohs who admittedly would have 3 games in hand but its better than being 4 points behind with 3 games more played.
With Han suspended for Dundalks match away to sligo as well as their injury count that match has the look of an opportunity for Sligo to go 7 points clear of Derry and look like genuine top 3 candidates again following that awful run.
Two big matches with lots at stake.
Forgot there was midweek games on , happy days something look at tonight & tomorrow.
Wow. That's a hypothetical I know but that would never fly in The Showgrounds. Winning some trophies is one thing but to reform your club would be seen by our supporters and the committee as the ultimate loss of all. Sligo Rovers committee, fans, supporter groups, trust, really see themselves as custodians of the club and it would be nothing but a slap in the face to everybody who has helped run the club in the past to just close up the club and start again.Quote:
Originally Posted by DCWA
The level of short-sightedness on the forum, on this subject, is perhaps a glaring reason why the League of Ireland has never really thrived in the modern day.
That has been the thinking in Inchicore through the years. There are many people both passed on and still alive that did amazing things to keep the club afloat. The thoughts of re mortgaging your home for your football club is unthinkable nowadays but fans did it.Quote:
Originally Posted by redobit
I think, sincerely, once you've reformed your club the first time you've lost the high ground and it's less of a punch in the face to do it again.
Absolutely, heros one and all. Plenty of things happened to keep clubs alive that will never be known. And people didn't do it for recognition or slaps on the back, they did it for the love of their club. Its a conversation that dosent happen but nobody that gets involved wants to be the era that sees the club reformed.Quote:
Originally Posted by D24Saint
Yip these type of things happened. Plenty of people have put their own money into the club or used their credit cards to get over a hump until money came through, and not that long a go either. When we were doing well about a decade ago there was people that had put money in and that was all cleared during the more prosperous times.Quote:
The thoughts of re mortgaging your home for your football club is unthinkable nowadays but fans did it.
The late great Jim Murphy suggested that Dundalk's biggest success of all was survival!Quote:
Originally Posted by redobit
Sure they can all move across to the reformed club with the honours, colours, crest and stadium.Quote:
Originally Posted by redobit
Get spending and fill that tropht cabinet. Wee year in 1st div
do ya’s no harm.
It's hardly ever just the one though, like Pints.Quote:
Originally Posted by DCWA
I'll miss LOITV next season if it isnt around , being able to watch the match tonight/tomorrow is great.
I wonder will it continue in some form.
They should have had the game wrapped up by 30 mins on Saturday but were very poor in second half. Will find it difficult in the Showgrounds and no doubt you guys are licking your lips to get them in the cup. Should survive playoffs but UCD could make them sweat.
Who, Dundalk?
We've lost every one of our last 14 games with them and we concede quite a lot still. I wouldn't fancy our chances against them tbh, basket case and all that they are.
Galway as a full-time team - albeit not a particularly good one, seeing as they're behind us - may have a better chance I think.
I do have to laugh at DCWA's suggestion of "Wee year in the 1st Div". How's that going for Shels?
A Paul Doolin inspired Athlone Town making a late run perhaps i thought the first division was over but Athlone winning away to Bray has them 5 points behind with 5 games to go.Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
I am glad to hear it as that of course was the intention.Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
I’m a Derry fan we done it one folks I can’t be held responsible for others getting stuck in the mud.
Decade later and we are billionaires, no harm done.
Pride is harder to move. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by DCWA
Six points really when the goal difference is taken into account.Quote:
Originally Posted by sbgawa
Bray have to play Cobh, Cabo and Wexford, and if they win those three, that should be enough even before Athlone slip up (as they surely will)
Says he crossing his fingers fervently!